Comment by 999900000999
13 hours ago
Too many people are using it.
In fantasy magic dream land loads are distributed evenly across different cloud providers.
A single point of failure doesn't exist.
It worked out with my first girlfriend. The twins are fluent in English and Korean. They know when deploying a large scale service to not only depends on AWS.
Healthcare in the US is affordable.
All types of magical stuff exist here.
But no. It's another day. AWS US-East 1 can take town most of the internet.
Core AWS services use it too. Even if you are hosted in another region, you can still be affected by a US-East 1 outage
The idea would be to actually load distribute between different cloud providers.
But even then , the load balancer needs to run somewhere. Which becomes a new single point of failure.
I’m sure someone smarter than me has figured this out.
yes, they have. It just costs a shit ton of money and is extremely difficult to get the suits to sign off on TWO full 'cloud services' bills. It generally doubles your cost and workload and increases your uptime by a couple hours/year, assuming you don't have bugs that affect one or the other cloud in your deployment stack.
It's basically a wash for almost all organizations for twice the cost and effort.
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DNS
Not really. Your clients can random robin to connection points across providers and move write heads upon connection. If you worry about hard coding you can reduce the surface to a per-context first minimum contact point.
I was surprised recently when setting up cloudfront with aws certs that it forced me to use us-east-1 to provision the certs.
STS is only on us-east-1 I believe
Yep. All of the identity and access management services for the non-China public cloud are in us-east-1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071472
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Bingo. This is the one most people don't know about.
> It worked out with my first girlfriend. The twins are fluent in English and Korean.
You were dating twins as a form of redundancy?!
Dual writes. You'd need to have the same conversation with both to keep them in sync.